Answer woman: Yelton rant, fire mischief

9:56 PM,
Oct. 25, 2013

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I think I speak on behalf of the entire Answer Nation when I say, "So, that just happened!"

Don Yelton, Buncombe County's own career gadfly who came to national fame this week for giving what New York Magazine is calling the "most baldly racist Daily Show interview of all time," hit a rarefied home run of horrifying racial epithets this week on a national stage.

The highlights include several iterations of the N-word, the phrase, "a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything," and the highly original, "I was making fun of the white half of Obama, not the black half." ...